Help Stop The Destruction Of Fauna and Flora
Why Is A Commercial Technology Supplier Doing This?
Exetel delivers technology derived services to end users as its method of existing as a commercial entity. There is little doubt that the human race has become the dominant species on this planet because of its abilities to use technology to overcome all 'natural' barriers and checks and balances to its continued expansion in both numbers and its expansion to every part of the planet's land mass. In doing this we, as a species, have consigned to extinction more species of flora and fauna in our pursuit of our own existence and expansion than all other species that have ever existed, or currently exist, on this planet put together.
Exetel's directors believe that part of our responsibilities of operating a commercial enterprise in Australia and Sri Lanka is to make those countries a better place to live for all inhabitants. We do this by trying to provide technology services at lower prices than any other commercial entity that operates in our fields and marketplaces to Australia's human inhabitants. We try to make our contribution to Sri Lanka's human population by investing in the country and paying our employees two to three times more than Sri Lankan or other 'multi-national companies operating in Sri Lanka. By doing this Exetel hopes to put some minor 'pressure' on other multi-national companies to increase their own salary payments.
Now that Exetel is making some regular, but as yet not very large, profits we believe it is our obligation to allocate a portion of those profits to providing 'services' to those species who co-inhabit the countries in which we operate whose existence is being threatened by our species' existence in them and our use of technology. Exetel Sri Lanka has now signed a contract to support a project that, hopefully, will begin to improve the lives of Sri Lanka's rural poor by helping them reduce the destruction of their corn, rice and pineapple crops by enriching/upgrading marginal land in to grazing land and allowing milk cows to generate a daily income from the production of milk while at the same time eliminating the attraction of wild elephants to their fields. Exetel Sri Lanka will fund this project by making monthly donations of around $US300,000 over the next three years.
Exetel's Contributions
Exetel began making donations to various endangered species programs in March 2008 and since that time Exetel has donated up to 1% of the monthly gross revenues it receives from providing Wireless Broadband, ADSL1 and ADSL2 services to a number of local community projects that will be administered by registered charities set up for such purposes or organizations that have a solid track record in these fields of operation.
This payment has been provided to the selected projects "on behalf of Exetel's customers" but was in fact paid using money that would otherwise have been allocated to shareholder's profits. Since March 2008 Exetel has donated around 30% of the profits it has made to a variety of fauna, flora and avia projects.
Helping The Endangered Species Survive
Too few people in either Australia or Sri Lanka involve themselves in conservation and species protection projects which means that, every year, more and more fauna, avia and flora species are consigned to oblivion.
"The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated" - Mahatma Gandhi
Thank you for taking the time to read about this sad situation.